The Republic of Arelplace is a gargantuan, cultured nation, ruled by Laddington McLad with a fair hand, and notable for its keen interest in outer space, compulsory military service, and punitive income tax rates. The compassionate, democratic population of 16.078 billion Arelplaceans love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent government stops and the rest of society begins, but it juggles the competing demands of Healthcare, Education, and Environment. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bisulifan. The average income tax rate is 90.0%, and even higher for the wealthy.

The very strong Arelplacean economy, worth a remarkable 1,015 trillion pelves a year, is driven almost entirely by government activity. The industrial sector is solely comprised of the Book Publishing industry. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is 63,188 pelves, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.

Statues of famous citizens are erected or demolished on a purely partisan basis, many friends and relatives of Laddington McLad have been given ambassador jobs in tropical island nations, white strait-jackets are the new orange jumpsuits, and advertisers scramble to sponsor the broadcast of Laddington McLad's most personal functions. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a very well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Arelplace's national animal is the Arctic crow, which soars majestically through the nation's famously clear skies.

Arelplace is ranked 71,421^st in the world and 1,469^th in the South Pacific for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 107.57 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.